Boeing debuts hypersonic jet concept designs

Engineers across the company are working to develop the technology that will position the company for the time when customers and markets are ready to reap the benefits of hypersonic flight.

“We’re excited about the potential of hypersonic technology to connect the world faster than ever before,” said Kevin Bowcutt, Senior Technical Fellow and Chief Scientist of Hypersonics.

“Boeing is building upon a foundation of six decades of work designing, developing and flying experimental hypersonic vehicles, which makes us the right company to lead the effort in bringing this technology to market in the future.”

Although Bowcutt can’t speculate when hypersonic flight for global travel will be a reality, he says it’s possible we could see something like our concept flying in 20-30 years; most likely, hypersonic flight would be used initially for national security applications.